Externally Assessed; Worth 20% of Overall Course Score
Students create 10-15 screens plus 3-5 screens which analyze the extent to which their work and practices have been influenced by the art and artists examined
The Comparative Study will examine and compare at least three artworks, objects, or artifacts, at least two of which need to be by different artists. The works selected for comparison and analysis should come from differing cultural contexts.
Graded on 5 criteria: Analysis of formal qualities; Interpretation of function and purpose; Evaluation of cultural significance; Making comparisons and connections; and Presentation and subject specific language.
Externally Assessed; Worth 40% of Overall Course Score
Students create 13-25 screens
The process portfolio must evidence sustained experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of art-making activities
The submitted work must have been created in at least three art-making forms, selected from a minimum of two columns of the art-making forms table
Graded on 5 criteria: Skills, techniques, and processes; Critical investigation, Communication of ideas and intentions; Reviewing, refining, and reflecting; and Presentation and subject specific language
Internally Assessed; Worth 40% of Overall Course Score
Students create 8-11 artworks, short text with each piece and a 700 word curatorial rationale.
Graded on 4 criteria: Coherent body of works; Technical competence; Conceptual qualities; and Curatorial practice
Thematic or stylistic: to what extent does the work submitted communicate a coherent collection of works which fulfill stated artistic intentions and communicate clear thematic or stylistic relationships across individual pieces.
IB Visual Arts (IBVA) Assessment Overview
(Edited by M. Larson from IBO Visual Arts Guide, 2016 edition) Assessment objectives:
At the end of the IBVA course (SL or HL), students will be expected to complete a formal assessment of their work according to the following four sets of objectives:
• Identify various contexts in which the visual arts can be created and presented
• Describe artwork from differing contexts, and identify the ideas, conventions and techniques employed by the art makers
• Recognize the skills, techniques, media, forms and processes associated with the visual arts
• Present work, using appropriate visual arts language, as appropriate to intentions
• Express concepts, ideas and meaning through visual communication
• Analyze artworks from a variety of different contexts
• Apply knowledge and understanding of skills, techniques, media, forms and processes related to art making
• Critically analyze and discuss artworks created by themselves and others and articulate an informed personal response
• Formulate personal intentions for the planning, development and making of artworks that consider how meaning can be conveyed to an audience
• Demonstrate the use of critical reflection to highlight success and failure in order to progress work
• Evaluate how and why art-making evolves and justify the choices made in their own visual practice
• Experiment with different media, materials and techniques in art-making
• Make appropriate choices in the selection of images, media, materials and techniques in art-making
• Demonstrate technical proficiency in the use and application of skills, techniques, media, images, forms and processes
• Produce a body of resolved and unresolved artworks as appropriate to intentions
Overview of IBVA Internal and External Assessments:
The IBVA assessment is made up of two parts, the External Assessment and the Internal Assessment.
The External Assessment is the IBO’s scoring of the investigative and process work submitted by each student, weighted at 60% (40% PP and 20% CS) of the total score. The Internal Assessment is the teacher’s scoring of each student’s exhibit of original artworks, weighted at 40% of the total score. The teacher’s score is moderated by the IBO, which then combines the External and Internal scores to determine each student’s total score.
The three parts of the IBVA External and Internal Assessments are linked above.